Digital BW, The Print

scanners for B&W (digest #2388)

I've tried making contact sheets on my flatbed Epson 2450 - and they're 
terrible. If you don't develop yourself, it's worth a few bucks to have the lab 
make the contact sheet.  I am very satisfied with the Minolta 5400 for film and 
slides - although it's slow. My best results with B&W film have been with the 
chromogenics - Kodak T400CN or Ilford Super XP2.    Good luck,
            Arlene

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ArleneLoveL@... wrote:
> scanners for B&W (digest #2388)
> 
> I've tried making contact sheets on my flatbed Epson 2450 - and they're 
> terrible. If you don't develop yourself, it's worth a few bucks to have the lab 
> make the contact sheet.  I am very satisfied with the Minolta 5400 for film and 
> slides - although it's slow. My best results with B&W film have been with the 
> chromogenics - Kodak T400CN or Ilford Super XP2.    Good luck,

I need to second this.  The original reason I started doing any wet 
printing at all was the infeasability of worthwhile contact sheets on 
the 2450.  And batch scanning a 36 exposure roll tended to take me about 
an hour per contact sheet, all told, which compared poorly to what I 
could do in a couple of minutes optically.

If the 4870 is markedly better here I'll have to pick one up.

Graham


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